RELEASING FORCE.

My Tennis coach would tell me that “It makes no difference how hard you hit the ball if the other guy can’t reach it”.

Something that should be completely obvious to all of us, and I think it is, is that making contact is the only game in town.

And that is coming from a Self-defence guy.

Be it a fist, a forearm, an elbow strike, a headbut, a knee strike, a shin kick or a foot up the watusi, if we do not make contact with our attacker when we interact, it is down hill all day.

Forget style or technique, if we are not hitting them, they are hitting us.

As this thread started off from the IDEA of hitting harder and working to that end, my own experiences tell me that by far the most important thing is to hit first.

To use a quote from my tennis coach back when I was competing at club level, “it does not matter how slow a ball is going if your opponent cant reach it”.

Being first gives us a great, and frequently a winning, advantage.

So the first consideration is how do we make contact before our attacker takes the high ground.

The key is to delay the attack until missing is more difficult than landing the blow.

When we understand it, this is the impetus of the one inch punch.

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Because of what my Tennis coach told me I am more of a results guy than a methodology guy.

Only out of the “WHAT” can emerge the “HOW”.